Curriculum Content or Subject Matter

5 principles curriculum content organization

(Palma,1992)

1.Balance

2.Articulation

3.Sequence

4.Integration

5.Continuity

"Broad subject areas in basic or general education"

-Communication Arts

-Mathematics

-Science

-Social Studies

-Music

-Physical Education

-Vocational Education

According to Gerome Bruner,

Knowledge is a mdel we construct to give meaning and structure to regularities in experience.

Vocational Education

-includes psychomotor and manipulative skills in basic crafts and trades,design,work ethic and appreciation of manual productive work.

Physical Education

-includes health and physical fitness, individual and team sports, spectatorship and wise use of leisure.

Music

-includes basic music theory, practice in listening,singing, playing musical instruments and music reparation.

Social Studies

-include basic elements of Geography, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Civics, Polotical Science and Psychology.

Curriculum Content or Subject Matter

Science

-includes all branches

of the natural sciences,

exploration and discovery dealing with natural phenomena and the use of scientific method of investigation.

Mathematics

-includes numeric and

computational skills,

geometry and measurement, algebra, logic and reasoning.

Communication Arts

- include skills in listening , speaking, reading and writing as well as the effective use of language in daily living.

- All curricula have conte, regardless of their design or models.

-Content is more than simply information to be learned in school.

-To some curriculum speacialist, content or subject matter is another term for knowledge.

-It is a compendium of facts, concepts generalization,principles and theories.

a. frequently and commonly used in daily life;

b.suited to the maturity levels and abilities of students;

c.valuable in meeting the needs and the competencies of a future career;

d.related with other subject areas;

e.important in the transfer of learning.

Criteria Content Section

1.Self-sufficiency

2.Significance

3.Validity

4.Interest

5.Utility

6.Learnability

7.Feasibility

Self- sufficiency

-According to Scheffler (1970) the prime guiding principle for content selection is helping the learners to attain maximum self-sufficiency in learning but in the most economical manner. Economy means less teaching effort and educational resources,less learner's effort but more results and effective learning outcomes.

Significance

-When content or subject matter will contribute to basic ideas,concepts,principles and generalization to achieve the overall aim of the curriculum, then it is significant.

Validity

-The authenticity of the subject matter selected is its validity. With information explosion,oftentimes,knowledge selected for school content may become obsolete.

Interest

-For a leaner-centered curriculum, this is the key criterion. A learner will value the content if it is meaningful to him or her.

Utility

-Usefulness of the content or subject matter may be relative to the learner who is going to use it. Usefulness maybe either be for the present or the future.

Learnability

-Subject matter in the curriculum should be within the range of the experience of the learners.

Feasibility

-can the subject matter or content be learned within the time allowed, resources available, expertise of the teacher, and the nature of the learners.